Rabies is one of humanity’s oldest known zoonotic diseases: terrifying, yet entirely preventable. For Dr. Andre Coetzer, a virologist leading GARC- Rabies Alliance (GARC), the journey began as an academic fascination and became a personal mission.

On a crisp November morning in Entregalde, a small village in Alba County, 63-year-old Oana wrapped her woolen scarf tightly as she walked toward the community center. Her fatigue and dizziness had become part of daily life—symptoms she had learned to ignore.

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“It's so cool to imagine the countless lives that I'm helping to improve through my internship,” she said. “It's a very powerful feeling and it's one that I'm very grateful to have the opportunity for.”

Ya-Han Brownlee-Chen, Vice President of Data Center Strategy at DP World in the Americas, joined leaders from across the infrastructure ecosystem for the panel “AI Infrastructure, Data Centers & The Northwest Power Challenge.”